Navi’s Fun Adventure: Curiosity
By Jared L.
Blue space starfield by View more by sololos from Getty Images Signature Created in Canva
Ironically, you needed to be a genius to get to Genius. The security protocols of the planet were locked down tight in fear of the knowledge inside being destroyed or used for evil. Navi had to assess his options and tools before even thinking of going. He encountered a local who gave him a key piece of information. The local, whose name was Cayde, spread out a large map showing the different planets and ultimately Genius itself. Back beneath the map’s multi-layered surface, however, lay a small moon that ran in secret around the large central body of Genius. Its name was simply labeled Zero. That moon marked a backdoor to Genius’ surface without the countermeasures and security checkpoints of a normal entrance.
“You're really doing this, aren’t you?” Cayde asked hesitantly.
“Wouldn’t you go to Neverland if you found out it was real? This is what I grew up hearing stories about!” Navi responded confidently as he slung his bag over his shoulder and started to approach his ship. Every step he took rang with a strange, excited confidence.
Cayde followed close behind. “But this is Zero we’re talking about. There’s a reason it’s set in the second layer of the map where no one would see.”
“Someone cared enough to put it on there. Means they must’ve survived to tell the tale right?” He put the bags onto the loading bay.
Cayde grabbed a piece of luggage in tandem with Navi, spinning him around with forceful determination to look into his soft, worried eyes. “They had a whole fleet. Hundreds of transport ships attempting to colonize the unknown moon. Only one of them survived and we don’t have any clue why. When we approach the survivor he gets all shook and slinks back into a corner of his house begging the interviewer to get out.”
Navi gave a thoughtful sigh and paused for a moment before he spoke. “But I have to try. I appreciate your concern, but I’ve done risky things before. I have the technology. Do you trust me enough to believe I can make this journey?”
“How could I?”
Navi sighed. “Is it risky? Absolutely. I’m not ignorant to that fact.Either way this ends, I see a positive benefit. Either I live and get to go on this wonderful experience and learn and grow, or I die and leave breadcrumbs for the next person to attempt this to use. If I don’t succeed, someone else will.”
Columns: 🔗Companion Articles, 🖋️Creative Writing
Jared L has been at NSA for six years and at The Navigator for three. He lives in the United States and is beginning his pursuit into the veterinarian world of studies. He enjoys when he can allow his creativity to run wild with his hobbies of building Lego sets and painting Warhammer.